Utricularia.] LENTHJULARLE. 197 



deep and rich purple-coloured flowers, well contrasted with the pale but 

 bright hue of the leaves." Hooker. 



3. P. lusitanica, Linn. Pale Butterwort. Spur cylindrical, 

 obtuse, decurved, shorter than the almost equal limb of the 

 corolla; leaves veiny, and, as well as the scape hairy. Br. Ft. 

 1. p. 8. E. FL v. i. p. 28. E. Bot. t. 145. 



Boggy grounds in mountainous situations in many parts of the coun- 

 try. County of Antrim ; Mr. Templeton. Mourne mountains ; Mr. 

 Hyndman. County of Cork ; Rev. Doctor Hincks. Achil, Croagh- 

 patrick and Nephin, County of Mayo ; Messrs. Thomson and Ball. 

 Plentiful in Kerry ; Swarilinbar mountains near Florencecourt, and in 

 Cunnamara ; also near the Three-rocked mountain above Dundrum, 

 and in various parts of the County of Wicklow. FL June, July. If.. 



2. UTRICULARIA. Linn. Bladder-wort. 



Calyx of two sepals, the lips equal and undivided. Corolla 

 personate; the lower lip spurred at the base. Stigma bila- 

 biate. Capsule globose, of one cell. Seeds fixed to a central 

 receptacle. Name from Utriculus, a little bladder. 



Diandria. Monogynia. 



1. U. vulgaris, Linn. Bladder-wort, or Hooded Milfoil. 

 Spur conical ; stalk straight ; cluster somewhat corymbose ; 

 upper lip of the corolla the length of the palate, reflexed 

 at the sides. Br. FL \. p. 9. E. FL v. i. p. 30. E. Bot. t. 

 253. 



Ditches and deep pools, not unfrequent. FL June, July. %. 

 Shoots or runners floating horizontally in the water, clothed with ca- 

 pillary multifid leaves, bristly at the margin, and bearing little cristate 

 bladders. Scape erect, four to six inches high or more, with six or 

 eight ye\\o\v flowers in a raceme. 



2. U. intermedia, Hayne. Intermediate Bladder-wort. Spur 

 conical ; stalk two or three-flowered ; upper lip of the corolla 

 flat, twice as long as the palate ; leaves with deep, forked, flat 

 segments; bladders separate from the leaves. Br. FL 1. p. 9. 

 E. FL v. i. p. 30. E. Bot. t. 2489. 



Ditches and bog-holes, or deep pools. First found in Ireland in the 

 County of Fermanagh by the late Doctor R. Scott. Bog-holes filled 

 with water at Mucruss, Killarney, 1805, where it has subsequently been 

 found by Mr. W. Wilson. Ballynahinch, County of Down ; Mr. 

 Templeton. FL June, July. 1. Flowers smaller than the last, of a 

 pale yellow, and have a longer lip. The stems are more leafy, and the 

 bladders proceed from branched stalks, not from the leaves. 



3. U. minor. Linn. Lesser Bladder-wort. Spur short, ob- 

 tuse, keeled, deflexed ; cluster of few flowers ; corolla gaping ; 

 palate nearly flat; lips undivided. Br. FL 1. p. 9. E. FL v. i. 

 p. 30. E.Bot. t. 254. 



Ditches and pools. Plentiful in bog-holes and small lakes in Cun- 

 namara. Common in the county of Deny ; Mr. D. Moore. 



